Office SP3 and File formats  —  In Office 2007, we changed the default to disable a number of older file formats where we saw very low usage and a high security risk in our code that loads these formats.  From the security standpoint, this is the right thing to do.

Source:   David LeBlanc’s Web Log
Author: […]

Porn, Ning, and the Internet  —  There’s been a recent flurry of commentary about Ning and porn.  While I appreciate everyone’s thoughts on the topic, I wanted to post directly and tell you what we know and what we think.  —  Let’s take the issues in order:

Source:   blog.pmarca.com
Author:   Marc Andreessen
Link:   http://blog.pmarca.com/2008/01/porn-ning-and-t.html

Put Buyers First?  What a Concept  —  My Christmas story — the one I’ve been telling and retelling these last 10 days — began on Friday, Dec. 21.  —  It was early in the morning, and I had awoken with the sudden, sinking realization that a present I had bought for one of my sons […]

FAA: Boeing’s New 787 May Be Vulnerable to Hacker Attack  —  Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner passenger jet may have a serious security vulnerability in its onboard computer networks that could allow passengers to access the plane’s control systems, according to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration.

Source:   Wired News
Author:   Kim Zetter
Link:   http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2008/01…

Can You Count on Voting Machines?  —  Jane Platten gestured, bleary-eyed, into the secure room filled with voting machines.  It was 3 a.m. on Nov. 7, and she had been working for 22 hours straight.  “I guess we’ve seen how technology can affect an election,” she said.

Source:   New York Times
Author:   Clive Thompson
Link:   […]

Can You Count On These Machines?  —  Jane Platten gestured, bleary-eyed, into the secure room filled with voting machines.  It was 3 a.m. on Nov. 7, and she had been working for 22 hours straight.  “I guess we’ve seen how technology can affect an election,” she said.

Source:   New York Times
Author:   Clive Thompson
Link:   […]

Noontime Web Video Revitalizes Lunch at Desk  —  In cubicles across the country, lunchtime has become the new prime time, as workers click aside their spreadsheets to watch videos on YouTube, news highlights on CNN.com or other Web offerings.  —  The trend — part of a broader phenomenon known …

Source:   New York Times
Author:   […]

Erased  —  OK, forget for a few minutes the debate about who owns your email addresses, birthdays, and name on social networking sites.  —  Forget for a few minutes about whether or not I was a jerk, stupid, idiotic, or worse for breaking the terms of service of one of your favorite companies.

Source:   Scobleizer […]

Intel Quits Effort to Get Computers to Children  —  SAN FRANCISCO — A frail partnership between Intel and the One Laptop Per Child educational computing group was undone last month in part by an Intel saleswoman: She tried to persuade a Peruvian official to drop the country’s commitment …

Source:   New York Times
Author:   John […]

HD DVD group cancels CES press conference in wake of Warner announcement: daaamn  —  We just got an email which stated that the HD DVD group is canceling its CES press conference; tail severely between legs over today’s explosive news that Warner — the last “undecided” studio …

Source:   Engadget
Author:   Ryan Block
Link:   http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/04/hd-dvd-group…